Casa de los Babys

2003 Drama

John Sayles' Casa de los Babys tells the tale of a half-dozen American women who travel to Latin America in order to pick up their adopted children. They all stay at the same motel while they each wade through the bureaucracy. Sharing with each other their fears, hopes, dreams, and frustrations at the thoughts of becoming mothers comprises the majority of the drama in the film. The cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden, Susan Lynch, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, and Rita Moreno.

Director: John Sayles

Starring: Daryl Hannah, Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Steenburgen

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  • Sayles handles this material with gentle delicacy, as if aware that the issues are too fraught to be approached with simple messages.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • Babys is intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring, a rare combination these days, though hardly unusual for writer/director John Sayles.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • Sayles seems to be trying, single-handedly, to correct centuries of First World self-centeredness in Third World contexts.

    Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe

    19 January 2013

  • Some of the pieces in its jigsaw puzzle are too fragmentary, and there's a sense of racing against time to fill in the blanks. Yet the movie's even-handed portrayal of two cultures uneasily transacting the most personal business resonates with truth.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • If Casa de los Babys isn't necessarily a fully realized film, it's still a deeply felt glimpse into dizzyingly complex political and psychological forces that shape the most crucial decisions of a woman's life.

    Ann Hornaday - The Washington Post

    19 January 2013

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